Mali: Ghanaian Nana Akufo-Addo is optimistic about the rest of the transition
The current president of the ECOWAS "urged the transitional authorities to finalize the timetable for the electoral process" (illustrative image) John MacDougall / Pool / AFP via Getty Images
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The Ghanaian head of state Nana Akufo-Addo, current president of the Community of West African States (ECOWAS), explained on Sunday October 11 during his visit to Bamako that he was "hopeful" that the authorities Malian transition groups are respecting their commitments.
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For the moment, all the actions undertaken by the transitional authorities give us good hope that they keep the commitments made to us
", declared the Ghanaian president during a very brief press conference at the end of his visit.
Accompanied in particular by the former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan, mediator in this crisis, and the president of the ECOWAS Commission, Jean-Claude Kassi Brou,
Nana Akufo-Addo met
the transitional president Bah N'daw, a colonel in retirement, and the transitional vice-president, the head of the junta, Colonel Assimi Goïta.
He also met with Transitional Prime Minister Moctar Ouane, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and career diplomat.
The current president of ECOWAS "
urged the transitional authorities to finalize the timetable for the electoral process to arrive at the presidential and parliamentary elections within the deadline
", according to a statement read during the press conference.
The Ghanaian president also met former Prime Minister Boubou Cissé, one of the eleven civilian and military personalities still detained since the coup and whose release Colonel Goïta announced on Wednesday.
This release was one of the demands of the ECOWAS.
Another of these demands, the dissolution of the junta, has not yet been met, nor officially mentioned during the visit.
ECOWAS lifted its sanctions
after having obtained the designation of a civilian president and prime minister and the junta waiving the possibility for the vice-president, Colonel Goïta, to replace the president in the event of a 'impediment.
(With AFP)
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